From: David Laiymani Date: Wed, 6 May 2015 13:58:24 +0000 (+0200) Subject: DL : corrections abstract X-Git-Url: https://bilbo.iut-bm.univ-fcomte.fr/and/gitweb/rce2015.git/commitdiff_plain/9b8612a74b1682a47832402cd8871ab7f7fc9c69?ds=sidebyside;hp=2ef29db4c155662efe60a4020c208c62025628f4 DL : corrections abstract --- diff --git a/paper.tex b/paper.tex index 2c9b309..b11da8c 100644 --- a/paper.tex +++ b/paper.tex @@ -96,20 +96,21 @@ performed. With some applications, it is difficult, if not impossible, to build accurate performance models. That is why another solution is to use a simulation tool which allows us to change many parameters of the architecture (network bandwidth, latency, number of processors) and to simulate the execution of such -applications. We have decided to use SimGrid as it enables to benchmark MPI -applications. +applications. The main contribution of this paper is to show that the use of a +simulation tool (here we have decided to use the SimGrid toolkit) can really +help developpers to better tune their applications for a given multi-core +architecture. -In this paper, we focus our attention on two parallel iterative algorithms based +In particular we focus our attention on two parallel iterative algorithms based on the Multisplitting algorithm and we compare them to the GMRES algorithm. -These algorithms are used to solve libear systems. Two different variants of +These algorithms are used to solve linear systems. Two different variants of the Multisplitting are studied: one using synchronoous iterations and another -one with asynchronous iterations. For each algorithm we have tested different -parameters to see their influence. We strongly recommend people interested -by investing into a new expensive hardware architecture to benchmark -their applications using a simulation tool before. - - - +one with asynchronous iterations. For each algorithm we have simulated +different architecture parameters to evaluate their influence on the overall +execution time. The obtain simulated results confirm the real results +previously obtained on different real multi-core architectures and also confirm +the efficiency of the asynchronous multisplitting algorithm compared to the +synchronous GMRES method. \end{abstract}